(145 votes)   Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principals to trifles.

George Santayana
1863-1952, American Philosopher, Poet

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(127 votes)   I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Caesar Augustus
63 BC - AD 14-, Founder of Roman Empire

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(121 votes)   A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.

Aldous Huxley
1894-1963, British Author

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(109 votes)   City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Henry David Thoreau
1817-1862, American Essayist, Poet, Naturalist

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(104 votes)   The city as a center where, any day in any year, there may be a fresh encounter with a new talent, a keen mind or a gifted specialist -- this is essential to the life of a country. To play this role in our lives a city must have a soul -- a university, a great art or music school, a cathedral or a great mosque or temple, a great laboratory or scientific center, as well as the libraries and museums and galleries that bring past and present together. A city must be a place where groups of women and men are seeking and developing the highest things they know.

Margaret Mead
1901-1978, American Anthropologist

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(75 votes)   One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.

Jane Austen
1775-1817, British Novelist

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(66 votes)   There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.

Kathleen Norris
1880-1966, American Novelist

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(54 votes)   Cities are distinguished by the catastrophic forms they presuppose and which are a vital part of their essential charm. New York is King Kong, or the blackout, or vertical bombardment: Towering Inferno. Los Angeles is the horizontal fault, California breaking off and sliding into the Pacific: Earthquake.

Jean Baudrillard
French Postmodern Philosopher, Writer

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(53 votes)   Paris, a city of gaieties and pleasures, where four-fifths of the inhabitants die of grief. [About Paris]

Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort
1741-1794, French Writer, Journalist, Playwright

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(53 votes)   Where the criminals cover their crimes by making them legal. [On Washington D. C.]

Frank Dane

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(46 votes)   The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head, fills citified ears -- as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries, or as the voices and songs of his loved ones once filled his heart. He is sidewalk-happy.

Frank Lloyd Wright
1869-1959, American Architect

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(45 votes)   The city is loveliest when the sweet death racket begins. Her own life lived in defiance of nature, her electricity, her frigidaires, her soundproof walls, the glint of lacquered nails, the plumes that wave across the corrugated sky. Here in the coffin depths grow the everlasting flowers sent by telegraph.

Henry Miller
1891-1980, American Author

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(41 votes)   This city now doth, like a garment, wear the beauty of the morning; silent bare, ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie open unto the fields and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.

William Wordsworth
1770-1850, British Poet

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(40 votes)   Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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(40 votes)   I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday.

W. C. Fields
1879-1946, American Actor

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